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James Hart Wyld
Flying Leathernecks U.S. Marine Corps Aviation
Sergei Pavlovich Korolëv
Bessie Coleman
Robert Albert Charles Esnault-Pelterie
Lt. James H. "Jimmy" Doolittle
Auguste Piccard
Frank Joseph Malina
Friedrich Tsander
Lt. Leslie P. Arnold
Hermann "Noordung" Potočnik
Noel F. Parrish
William T. Piper
Flight Crew of the NC-4
Calbraith Perry Rodgers
Philip Ellaby Cleator
C. Alfred Anderson and Albert Forsythe
Lt. Lowell Smith
Nikolai Alekseevich Rynin
Cornelius Coffey
William J. Powell Jr.
Willa Brown
Hermann Julius Oberth
Benjamin O. Davis Jr.
Capt. Hawthorne C. Gray
Yakov Isidorovich Perel’man
C. G. Taylor
Amelia Earhart
Charles Lindbergh
Walter Hohmann
Chauncey Spencer
Hermann Ganswindt
Robert Hutchings Goddard
James Herman Banning
Gawain Edward "Ed" Pendray
Max Valier
Lt. Oakley Kelly
Ruth Nichols
Yuri Vasilievich Kondratyuk
Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky
Willy Ley
The Tuskegee Airmen
Eugen Sänger
Louise Thaden
Janet Bragg
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Pioneers of Naval Aviation
Wernher von Braun
Lt. John Macready
Albert W. Stevens
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